The Florence center for data science is happy to announce that two of the founder departments are now running to be recognized as departments of excellence, as they passed the first selection provided by ANVUR, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes.
Both DINFO, the Information Engineering department, and DISIA, the Statistics, Computer Science and Applications department “G. Parenti” are among the first 350 nominees; DISIA is confirmed with maximum score.
The Departments of Excellence represent an innovative financing measure addressed to the top 180 departments of Italian universities, acknowledged and selected for the high quality of research and development projects by MUR, the Italian Ministry of University and Research.